Fly swatter



June 29 1926. 1,590,846

. G. A. MQQRE FLY SWATTER Filed NOV. 28, 1925 Figtl 11211012234, Geo r92 1111501? W aw? ney.

Patented June 29, 1926. v j i tries.

GEORGE A. MOORE, OF MEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS.

FLY SWATTER.

Application filed November 28, 1925. Serial No. 71,983.

This invention pertains to that tyq'm ot which the air can readily pass. In this conappliances for killing dies and the like in struction, I do not told over the lateral which a light, flatly extended member is atedges of the card. but merely the terminal tached to an elongated handle; and it has edge 9. The lateral edges of the netting are 45 5 for its object the etlectinp; otniea. s for iowever preferably folded over, as at 11, so combining wire netting and heavy paper and staples 12 put through the same and the as both to increase the eiiectiv and ducard beneath.

rability of the swattinp; portion, and to per- In using this swatter, the netting face 1 mitof the application or advertising; matis Carried downward, and, as it descends i0 t r thereto. upon the fly, the air pressure causes the card In the drawings forming part ot' this to belly upward slightly so that the wire specliication, 1 1s a race view of the meshes will alone strike and killthe insect preterred torm oi the swatter, viewing it on and Will not scatter its remains about the the netting side. Fig. 2 is an obverse view surface upon which it had alighted. 5 of the same. Fig. 3 is a face new ot' an- The value of the card 2 lies in the slightly other form of the lDVQIltlOn, increased weight given to the swatter and The reference numeral 1 designates a consequently greater eiificiency; in the inlength of wire netting preferably rectangucreased durability of the device, and in the lar in outline; 2, a rectangular length oi Opportunity provided by which suitable ad- 29 heavy paper or card; and 3, an elongated vertising matter can be printed thereon.

wooden handle quite thin and flexible. in What I claim as my invention is: both forms of the invention, the corners 8 1. A fly swatter comprising a thin elonof the netting and of the card are folded gated handle, a length of wire netting and over to meet along the center line of the a length of heavy paper superposed thereon 25 handle and enclosing the terminal portion and marginally attached together, the corthereof. Then staples at are driven through 11ers of the netting and paper at one end the four layers of netting and card and the e ng folded Over onto the terminal porhandle between. tion of the handle and stapled thereto} In the form of the invention shown in 2. A fly sWatter comprising a thin elonso Fig. 3, the lateral edges 5 of the card are gated handle, a length oi wire netting, a folded over the edges of the netting and length of hea y paper having one end fold fastened by staples 6, 7 as also the terminal ed over the end of the netting and stapled edge 9 which is held by the staples Y, 6. together, the opposite ends of the netting While this makes a good fly swatter, it is and paper having their corners folded overliable to produce an air current as it deonto the handle and stapled together; the scends upon a fly, which may either warn lateral edges of the netting being doubled the insect and give it opportunity for es and stapled to the paper. cape, or actually blow it away. In testimony that I claim the foregoing I prefer, therefore, to form a series of invention, I have hereunto set my hand this longitudinally disposed slots 10 through the 20th day of November, 1925.

card 2, as shown in Fig. 2, by means or GEORGE A. MOORE. 

